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Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2
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Chad Brown |
Subject: |
Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2 |
Date: |
Mon, 6 Sep 2010 11:56:16 -0700 |
On Sep 6, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> Apparently libxml2 comes with a parser for "real world" HTML, which is
>> very intriguing:
>>
>> http://www.xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-HTMLparser.html
>>
>> If Emacs provided a native interface to this function, we could say
>>
>> (parse-html "file.html")
>> => (:html (:head ...) (:body ...))
>>
>> and get a nice parse tree out very fast. (Parsing HTML from Emacs Lisp
>> is rather slow.)
>>
>> Has this been discussed before and rejected? It seems like an obvious
>> idea, and would enable both easier extraction of data from HTML files,
>> as well as writing a (simple) HTML renderer in Emacs Lisp.
>
> It was discussed before here:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg01147.html
>
> Wasn't there a problem with linking to external libraries at that time?
Yes, there was. The FSF [lawyers] recently determined that it would be
possible to use external libraries with some explicit marking of legal status,
along the lines of what is used in GCC. Looking back through the mail
archives, it seems that practical implementation is stuck waiting on an FFI
design/implementation. I thought that one had been sketched out, but I'm
not finding it in the archives, so perhaps I am confused.
*Chad
- Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Chad Brown, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lennart Borgman, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2,
Chad Brown <=
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Chong Yidong, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, joakim, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Jason Rumney, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/06
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Andreas Schwab, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/08
- Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2, joakim, 2010/09/08